These Songs were written specially for Enid Hardwick who gave them their first performance (with Richard Deering - piano at the Purcell Room, London on 22 December 1980.
Although I have used William Blake's title for my group of songs, the poems I have chosen are not by him. My use of the title, however, has a direct link with Blake - the sentiments are the same.
On the Polyphonic label.